Best pickup setup Nashville Tele with Mini humbucker in neck

[bluesholyman]

I am upgrading the pickups on my Squier Vintage modified SSH (which is really an HHH) as both stock singles are stacked.

I upgraded the middle pickup with an SSL-5 I had and now I want to upgrade the mini and bridge pickups to "work well" with that ssl-5. One of the seymour mini's is a no brainer but I am stuck on the bridge. I love the sound that Vince Gill gets out of his bridge pickup when he solo's on "Don't Try This At Home" with the Players - nothing but bite and its not too shrill either. This video at 2:50, he kills it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M

I am not sure if a vintage style bridge pickup with hold up against the SSL-5's 13K DCR for balance across positions - bridge should kick in hotter. I am considering the Quarter Pounder but I don't know if that has enough bite - certainly enough output and grind. Maybe the QP with a base plate?

Any thoughts would be appreciated on a good bridge pickup with plenty of output and bite, but not ice pick.

 

[bluesholyman]

Re: Best pickup setup Nashville Tele with Mini humbucker in neck

I watched Vince's PremierGuitar rig rundown and in the latter half of the video, he talks about a trick he learned about rolling down the treble when using the bridge pickup. So it would seem that nice tone is from an ice-pick with the treble rolled off some.

Hmmm, thinking I will start with the QP just for grind factor and see how it goes...

 

[jeremy]

Re: Best pickup setup Nashville Tele with Mini humbucker in neck

the qp tele lead is a great pup but it sounds nothing like a tele bridge pup or vince gill. with the ssl5 in the middle youll need something pretty hot to keep up so the qp is a fine choice.

a base plate fattens the tone and i would not recommend it on a qp

 

[elelpe]

Re: Best pickup setup Nashville Tele with Mini humbucker in neck

Are you considering QP - SSL5 - SM1 combo? QP will have enough bite with 500k pots
Having said that, STL2 is a great pickup too. I'd say it's 'Broadcaster on steroid'. STL2 - SSL5 - SM1 will have plenty high end. I'd suggest using 375k pots or 500k vol - 250k tone for this combo.

 

[bluesholyman]

Re: Best pickup setup Nashville Tele with Mini humbucker in neck

Are you considering QP - SSL5 - SM1 combo? QP will have enough bite with 500k pots
Having said that, STL2 is a great pickup too. I'd say it's 'Broadcaster on steroid'. STL2 - SSL5 - SM1 will have plenty high end. I'd suggest using 375k pots or 500k vol - 250k tone for this combo.

Yes, this is the setup I am thinking about. The guitar might already have 500k volume pot as it had stacked pickups already - need to check specs on tone pot. Will upgrade pots/switch after pups.

Thanks for the input.